Project Manager

Skills

Description

• Proven ability to succeed in a fast paced, demanding cross-functional environment working with business users, project team members, IT development personnel and vendors
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, and creative problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to handle complexity (technical and organizational)
• Strong understanding of systems. Able to understand technical terms and system design considerations
• Curious, goal oriented and highly self-motivated with a passion for driving transformative change
• Strong customer service orientation; enjoys people and creates raving fans
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; comfortable presenting to all levels of business and technical audiences
• Experience with both Waterfall and Agile frameworks
• Experience with eCommerce applications, digital content development and data quality improvement preferred
• Work experience in manufacturing or aftermarket parts industry a plus
• Experience leading 3rd party software implementations a plus

Responsibilities

• • Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• • Track, publish and follow up on action items and issues
• • Proactively remove roadblocks and escalate, as appropriate, to management
• • Monitor spending against budget milestones and take corrective action, as needed
• • Manage pre-project activities (including resource acquisition and SOWs) and drive all stages through project completion
• • Manage third party vendor relationships, contract administration and SOW compliance
• • Schedule and lead team meetings, standups and working sessions as needed
• • Work with the IT Manager and developers to determine work estimates and resource requirements to create a detailed project plan
• • Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation according to PMO policy, including Business Case, ROM estimates, Project Charter, Project Schedule, Work Breakdown Structure, and Lessons Learned
• • Manage sprint planning (for Agile projects)
• • Promote a strong working partnership between business and IT members of the team and insure excellent communications between team members, stakeholders and management, at all levels
• • Produce status reports and maintain project metrics
• • Control scope and manage the change control process